Acumatica vs. Aline

It is well suited because it appears to have been designed to work across multiple industries, and we've kind of seen that it works well for the construction industry. Still, we've been here at the Acumatica Summit and have seen a lot of other industries being able to use the same product, so they have designed it well.

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Aline is best suited as an information aggregator, and it helps maintain all the records correctly. The different tabs are useful to look at when we are trying to search for a particular prospect/ lead. The platform is not very intuitive regarding the next steps, and it would help if there was a different color for the fonts and more radio buttons to follow up on the next steps.

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• Banking reconciliation: Quick, easy to understand and easy to follow to see where you left off
• Clearly displaying just enough data to answer questions without forcing us to work through copious amounts of detail or extracting data into other programs to get answers
• Billing and payment receipt is particularly helpful in the way that the data transfers into the banking section and is exported

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• Helps me keep track of my daily, monthly and annual progress
• Keeps me organized and on task
• Shows me our business progress

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• Remittance advices don't work.
• NACHA file to bank doesn't include vendor reference # which is the vendor invoice number.
• You can't do offsets between AR & AP when vendors are also customers to net the balances due to/from if agreed upon with the vendor/customer.

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• Amount of calls in the team progress section
• Team productivity report fixing so as to not have to scroll through
• In the calendar option the ability to move tasks more than a month at a time, if it could scroll down so I could move it to a few months ahead

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Because Acumatica keeps updating every year and adapting to all the changes especially with AI capabilities, User interface, interactive assistant and many more. Not only that, there are so many ISVs and VARs that support and integrate with Acumatica that provides you alot of options to innovate your business needs.

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I would give this rating because Accumatica is super easy to use. When I on boarded to work it was so easy to move through the various screens. In no time I was able to perform my daily required tasks with ease

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Aline is very easy to learn and use. The product training helps to ensure new users are guided appropriately and taught more about the items that may not be as commonly known. Once lists are curated, reports are easy to run and items can be manipulated based on the specific information you are looking for.

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It's always available.

there have been some performance issues

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We used Acumatica Support directly for the first year or so. Overall it's pretty good, but sometimes the support staff wasn't educated on the customizations we had, nor was I as the Customer as I couldn't remember which things were customized and which things were out of the box, so when there was an error, there were some misunderstandings.

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Support has been very responsive and helpful. I have also utilized the tools and suggestions, including training videos. Especially helpful when learning how this particular CRM worked and the best way to use the database to increase sales and stay ahead of the leads.

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It was on General Inquiries and it's just a complex topic.

Most of the trainers are amazing, but there were a couple who simply read the training guide

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I'd say the partner selection is critically important. I think the software is very easy to implement. It's very customizable to your business. Finding a partner that will work with you to understand your business and your needs is the critical piece to make sure that the system goes along with it.

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The basic difference between Acumatica and similar solutions is their complexity and usability. It is less complex and easier to learn, and it is also based on a low-code platform, which makes it more convenient for the end user.

Using different versions of Yardi showed me that it was only as effective if a decent amount of add-ons were purchased by the company. Welcome Home was good but not as philosophy-driven because of the Sherpa influence on Aline.

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From my understanding, the P.O. module is not very robust, at least the last time I inquired about it. At the time, it had a one-to-one match, with one invoice for one P.O. and that isn't practical for many businesses. I don't believe it would be an easy system to use for sending out invoices, if we had thousands of retail utility customers. We do a small number of invoices because we sell wholesale power, not retail, so we only Invoice the municipality. Not each utility customer.

• We were able to work in one system with customizations we needed in inventory and add all our grants in the same system
• Direct mail invoices was moved to an automated PO system saving time and allowing better financial tracking
• The grant module can be cumbersome requiring flip flopping to program partners etc during set up

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• When we implemented Aline the team occupancy was 76% by year end we were at 86.4%, this took 10 months.
• The platform saves me countless hours each month for datamining for board reports. The system has paid for itself several times over
• We can now compare year of year marketing campaigns to find out which campaigns to keep or no longer suit our market.

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